subductisupercilicarptor

Latin

FWOTD – 17 November 2021

From subdūcō (“I raise”) +‎ supercilium (“eyebrow”) +‎ carptor (“a criticizer”), coined by Laevius.

(Classical) IPA^(key): /sub.duk.ti.su.per.ki.liˈkarp.tor/, [s̠ʊbd̪ʊkt̪ɪs̠ʊpɛrkɪlʲɪˈkärpt̪ɔr]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sub.duk.ti.su.per.t͡ʃi.liˈkarp.tor/, [subd̪ukt̪is̬upert͡ʃiliˈkärpt̪or]

subductisupercilicarptor m (genitive subductisupercilicarptōris); third declension

(hapax, humorous) an overly critical person, an extremely censorious person, an eyebrow-raising fault-finder
- Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, book 19, VII (translation by John Rolfe):
  Cetera enim, quae videbantur nimium poetica, ex prosae orationis usu alieniora praetermisimus; veluti fuit quod de Nestore ait "trisaeclisenex" et "dulciorelocus", item quod de tumidis magnisque fluctibus "fluctibus," inquit, "multigrumis" et flumina gelu concreta "tegmine" esse "onychino" dixit et quae multiplica ludens conposuit, quale illud est, quod vituperones suos "subductisupercilicarptores" appellavit.
  But others we passed over as too poetic and unsuited to use in prose; for example, when he calls Nestor trisaeclisenex, or “an old man who had lived three generations” and dulciorelocus isle, or “that sweet-mouthed speaker,” when he calls great swelling waves multigruma, or “great-hillocked,” and says that rivers congealed by the cold have an onychinum tegimen, or “an onyx covering”; also his many humorous multiple compounds, as when he calls his detractors subductisupercilicarptores, or “carpers with raised eye-brows.”

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	subductisupercilicarptor	subductisupercilicarptōrēs
Genitive	subductisupercilicarptōris	subductisupercilicarptōrum
Dative	subductisupercilicarptōrī	subductisupercilicarptōribus
Accusative	subductisupercilicarptōrem	subductisupercilicarptōrēs
Ablative	subductisupercilicarptōre	subductisupercilicarptōribus
Vocative	subductisupercilicarptor	subductisupercilicarptōrēs